Jeremy Williams, 42, from Alabama, one of three inmates executed on same day in the US, has been put to death for the kidnap, rape and murder of five-year-old Kamarie Holland08:55, 14 Aug 2026A man who kidnapped, raped and killed a five-year-old girl has been executed in Alabama after asking for the death penalty to be carried out.Jeremy Williams, 42, was given a lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, after pleading guilty to the 2021 killing of Kamarie Holland in Georgia.Prosecutors said Williams raped and strangled Holland after offering her mother $2,500 for the child to perform oral sex on him. The payment was reduced to $1,300 (£960) after some negotiations.Williams filmed his attack on the girl and kept her body to continue to abuse, prosecutors said.Kamarie’s mother told police that when she woke up at 5:50am on December 13, 2021, her daughter was gone and the front door of their Columbus, Georgia, home was open. The girl’s body was found late that night at an abandoned home in nearby Phenix City, Alabama where Williams once lived.In 2022, Williams was charged with four counts of capital murder after he confessed to killing the five-year-old. And on March 13, 2024 he pleaded guilty to all four capital counts, asking for the death penalty to bring closure to the family of the victim in the case.Williams did not present any mitigating evidence - which is typically presented in a capital sentencing hearing to provide support for a sentence of life imprisonment without parole instead of death - during his sentencing in 2024. With no mitigating evidence to consider, the trial court sentenced Williams to death.Williams also was charged in 2022 with the 2005 death of his infant daughter in Alaska. "This man left a trail of destruction of children," Russell County District Attorney Richard Chancey said.About 10% of executed inmates are so-called volunteers who drop appeals, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre, but most of those have been on death row longer. The time between Williams' 2024 conviction and his lethal injection was unusually brief, said Robin Maher, executive director of the centre.His execution came with two others in Tennessee and Oklahoma, which is the first time in nearly 16 years that three inmates have been put to death on the same day in the US.The executions have been carried out as a small number of states drive execution numbers in the United States."You look at the country as a whole, you've just got this little pocket of five or six states that are using the death penalty, executing people, and a small number of states that are still imposing new death sentences," said Maher, who added it is highly unusual to have three executions on one day, although it is largely a scheduling coincidence.Oklahoma has executed Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, for the 2003 murder of his girlfriend. Prosecutors said Olimpia Fisher, 43, had been making plans to leave Cuesta-Rodriguez when he shot her in one eye and then waited about eight minutes as she screamed for help before firing the fatal shot into her other eye.Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-1 last month against recommending clemency for Cuesta-Rodriguez. His attorneys had asked the board to recommend he serve life in prison without parole, saying he had a difficult childhood and suffered from brain damage, post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression with psychotic episodes.But Cuesta-Rodriguez told the board that he did not want clemency. He said he wanted Fisher's two daughters to know that he regretted what happened. "I can't have been in my right mind to have done something so horrific," he said through a Spanish-language translator. "I have not been able to find any sense in all this."Anthony Darrell Hines has also been executed in Tennessee, three months after the attempted lethal injection of another inmate was called off because of problems inserting an IV. The aborted execution put a spotlight on issues states have sometimes had in establishing IV lines during lethal injections."All eyes really are on Tennessee at this moment because of the problem that happened," Maher said.During the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers in May, the IV team established a primary line right away but then worked for more than an hour trying to insert a required backup line. The execution was ultimately called off and Carruthers was given a one-year reprieve.Article continues belowHines, 66, has seized on the problems with the previous execution, saying his health issues - including two strokes that left him partially paralyzed - increase the risk of difficulties at his execution. He has unsuccessfully asked the governor and courts to intervene, claiming the doctor who oversaw that execution was unqualified and is likely to botch his execution, as well.Gov. Bill Lee has declined to take any action on Hines' requests, and last week the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled against a stay of his execution. The state has declined to say whether the same doctor will preside over the upcoming execution, but the court noted that Hines had not proved that doctor was unqualified.Hines was convicted of stabbing Catherine Jean Jenkins to death in 1985 while the 54-year-old was working as a motel maid in Kingston Springs. He was sentenced to death in 1986, won an appeal for a new sentencing hearing, and was again sentenced to death in 1989.